History Fridge / TheLegoMovie

* Why is it that Finn's name is Finn? Watch ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "All the Little People" and you will understand. The entire movie is a whole bloody reference.

** Emmet's design himself. He's an unremarkable "blank slate" because he's a ''standard Lego man'' with no real facial features under than the default smiley face and BlackBeadEyes. Compared to the others, who have their own unique faces, he really is forgettable because he's literally one of an enormous group.

** Finn had no way to know how his father used to be before his birth. He just knows that he gave him his much older throw-away pieces to play with and kept the newest sets for himself. As such, in Finn's eyes, his father has always been Lord Business. Furthermore, Benny the Spaceman, Metal Beard and other "Cloud Cuckoo Land minifigs", are old and messed up enough to come from Business' scrap heap, giving Finn a hint that once even his father used to be a kid having fun, placing the "Age of the Master Builders", before Lord Business' rise to power, somewhere between Finn's father's past and his fatherhood.
** Plus, Finn's dad is, well, his dad. All a father really has to do to become the villain in his son's playtime is tell him to brush his teeth, eat his vegetables and go to bed; note how Unikitty's rules for Cloudcuckooland include things like "no bedtime" (how many kids get into a snit just because their parents tell them to go to bed when they still want to stay up?) and "no babysitters" (likewise, how many kids would rather have the house to themselves rather than have a babysitter watch over them?).

* The sequences introducing Emmet are a goldmine of brilliance once the larger connotations of the ending revelation sink in. The first minutes of the film introducing us to Emmet have him gushing over the importance of following the instructions, watching inane sitcoms, gushing again over buying overpriced coffee, going to work to build things only to destroy them all over again become that much more significant when you realize that what we are actually seeing is a young child's perception of what "adult life" is supposed to be like, full of rules that make little to no sense and activities that seem largely pointless. The allegory goes further when we get to Cloud Cuckoo Land, which is full of childish idealizations of what life is supposed to be like, with Unikitty tossing around things like "no rules" and "no bedtimes."

* Once we learn that Cloud Cuckoo Land is the only part of the Legoverse built with Finn's ''own'' Lego bricks, Uni-Kitty's long list of things the Land lacks acquire a lot of subtext, and Uni-Kitty's anger management issues become a lot darker, since they probably indicate Finn has the same problem. This also explains how so many characters from history, franchises, and worlds can come together here - because it's the one place Finn can play with [=LEGOs=] without any rules!

*** If you look closely, Finn's Legos are in a box labeled "Cloud Bros. Movers" which means the family's moved recently. Which adds quite a subtext to the scene where Uni-Kitty watches out the window as her home drifts away...

*** We can then say that no wonder Finn's dad took it apart, because for one it didn't follow the rules - not to mention he'd probably think Unikitty looked more like a mishmash of parts that didn't make any sense to him compared to what LEGO figurines normally look like - and that it was a place that didn't follow his idea of perfection, seeing the lack of any sensible rules or structure. He's also a parent, so a demolition of Finn's idealistic fantasy world (no bedtimes, for example) of doing whatever you want sounds a lot like parental discipline.

* If Cloud Cuckoo Land has "no government", then how is Uni-Kitty a princess? Because there's "no consistency".

* Why are all the minifigs voiced by famous (grown-up) actors? Because Finn would have overheard the actors from shows/movies his parents watch! If they are ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' fans, this would give Uni-Kitty and Emmet their voices. Liam Neeson (action hero) and Morgan Freeman (wise man) are everywhere, etc. Charlie Day moves it slightly into Fridge Horror territory. Hopefully he heard it from ''Film/PacificRim'' and not ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''.

* In the beginning of the movie when Emmet is following the instructions, it seems like he's acting ridiculous in a way that might cause the audience to think following the instructions is "bad." Later when Emmet and the Master Builders are building the Octan spaceship, they all do it step by step as written in the manual. This shows that following the instructions can be good; even Unikitty is willingly helping. Why is it good now? Because now they chose the goal themselves and they know exactly why they are doing it. In the beginning of the movie, following the instructions was bad because they didn't have a choice.

* It's been shown that all Master Builders have their own area of expertise or preference. Batman only works in black/grey, Unikitty only builds things that are colorful and cute, Benny's great with 80s technology, etc. So then, if all the people in the LEGO universe have the potential to become Master Builders, even those who think like Emmet, why did Emmet take so long to unlock his potential? Maybe because his area of expertise is construction equipment! In the beginning of the movie, he's always one step ahead of his fellow construction workers, already handing them whatever piece they need when they ask for it. Plus, the first truly awesome thing he builds without instructions (apart from the double-decker couch, of course) happens after he lands back in LEGO land--and he crashes straight into a construction site!

* Why does Princess Uni-Kitty finally snap at the end? Usually she forces down negative emotions and focuses on the bright side, however there is no bright side to your friends being violently attacked by swarms of robots.

* Similarly, Metalbeard's NonStandardCharacterDesign is no longer so, when some of the civilians rebuild vehicles into mecha. Everyone is special indeed.
* Metalbeard's pirate law about "never put your rear end on a pirate's face". Sounds like he really hates the SternChase.

** It could also be a subtle foreshadowing to the actual re-release of Lego Bionicle in 2015. This movie and year is not their time, next year is.
* Why does the Piece of Resistance attach to Emmet's back? It's the cap for the Kragle. It might have had residue left on it.